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#ScholarStrike Program/Links:
#ScholarStrike
Official Website
https://www.scholarstrike.com/
#ScholarStrike is an action inspired by the NBA, WNBA, Colin Kaepernick and other athletes, to underscore the urgent importance of addressing racism and injustice in the United States. Conceived via a tweet by Anthea Butler, this is designed to call awareness to the racial climate in America, and the rash of police shootings and racialized violence.
Scholar Strike is both an action, and a teach-in. Some of us will, for two days, refrain from our many duties and participate in actions designed to raise awareness of and prompt action against racism, policing, mass incarceration and other symptoms of racism's toll in America.
Scholar Strike is open to everyone to participate in on college and university campuses- faculty, staff, grad students, and administrators who are committed to anti-racism, and advocating for racial justice for BIPOC in all areas of society.
We are also in solidarity with Canadian Scholars at https://scholarstrikecanada.ca.
#ScholarStrike @ Rutgers AAUP-AFT Speakout on Black Lives
Archived Speakout:
https://www.facebook.com/RUaaup/videos/814359875970172/
13th
2016, 1hr, 40 min, Directed by Ava DuVernay (Screened 9/9/20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8
"The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis." (Film Synopsis from Netflix)
"DuVernay contends that slavery has been perpetuated since the end of the American Civil War through criminalizing behavior and enabling police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing; suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement, lynchings, and Jim Crow; politicians declaring a war on drugs that weighs more heavily on minority communities and, by the late 20th century, mass incarceration of people of color in the United States. She examines the prison-industrial complex and the emerging detention-industrial complex, discussing how much money is being made by corporations from such incarcerations." (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
Love is the Message, The Message is Death
2016, 7:34 min, Directed by Arthur Jafa (Screened 9/9/20)
http://ubu.com/film/jafa_message.html
"Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death is a [2016] video by artist, director, and award-winning cinematographer Arthur Jafa. Set to the searing highs and lows of Kanye West’s gospel-inspired hip-hop track, “Ultralight Beam,” Love Is The Message is a masterful convergence of found footage that traces African-American identity through a vast spectrum of contemporary imagery. From photographs of civil rights leaders watermarked with “Getty Images” to helicopter views of the LA Riots to a wave of bodies dancing to “The Dougie,” the meticulously edited 7-minute video suspends viewers in a swelling, emotional montage that is a testament to Jafa’s profound ability to mine, scrutinize, and reclaim media’s representational modes and strategies. Alongside segments of familiar Black icons and historic events are also scenes featuring lesser known figures: anonymous bodies in various states of elation and despair. Excerpts from Jafa’s own stunning documentary film, Dreams are Colder than Death (2012) inflects a personal dimension to imagery mostly drawn from news media, television and the Internet. In this pointed inclusion, Jafa discloses both his vulnerability and authority as an artist—what it means to contribute to the vast and complex terrain of Black representation.
While Love Is The Message poignantly embodies the artist’s desire to create a cinema that “replicates the power, beauty and alienation of Black Music,” it is also a reminder that the collective multitude defining Blackness is comprised of singular individuals, manifold identities and their unaccountable differences." -Helen Molesworth
Voting and Civic Engagement:
RU Voting:
Step-by-Step Voter Registration Guide for Rutgers University Students
Are you currently living at home but are registered to vote on campus? Are you not sure where you are currently registered? Check your voter registration status so you can receive a ballot to the correct address!
For more information on voting for Rutgers Students visit: https://cypp.rutgers.edu/voter-registration/
Critical voting information can be found in the linked graphics below.
Each state has different voting protocols, laws and processes. Everyone should start the process now. Registration deadlines are fast approaching and early voting in many states has already begun
https://www.vote.org/state/new-jersey/
Voter Registration Deadlines (PDF by the Artist Andrea Geyer)
Walk the Walk 2020
https://medium.com/@anoka/walk-the-walk-2020-from-the-streets-to-the-ballot-box-1ed24ef96a44
“Join us in supporting Walk the Walk 2020, a fundraising initiative to resource grassroots community organizations who are building electoral power in Black and Latinx communities in six battleground states — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and now Arizona. (Due to recent robust fundraising, we have recently added the AZ group Our Voice, Our Vote.) The initiative’s approach of relational voter turnout has consistently proven to be the single most effective intervention to increase participation particularly in previously disenfranchised communities...”
Vote It Forward
“Fighting systemic injustice takes all types of organizing and collective action. One of the best ways we can make sure the future is safer and fairer for all is by voting in the upcoming election. Will you help make sure underrepresented voters cast their ballots this year by writing personal letters to them?” Sign up to get out the vote by sending 5+ letters using VoteFWD.
State & Local Social Justice Engagement:
Cultural Centers and groups around Rutgers:
Asian American Cultural Center
49 Joyce Kilmer Ave, Livingston Campus
Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
12 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus
http://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu/
Center for Latino Arts & Culture
172 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus
Center for Social Justice Education & LGBT Communities
17 Bartlett St., College Avenue Campus
http://socialjustice.rutgers.edu/
Center for Women in the Arts & Humanities
Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
Information is forthcoming.
Please read more about this new center here:
Paul Robeson Cultural Center
600 Bartholomew Road, Busch Campus
Center for Islamic Life
122 College Ave, College Avenue Campus
* (This center’s chaplin also does counseling services)
MFA / Muslim Feminists For the Arts
Art & Design, Mason Gross School of the Arts
https://www.facebook.com/pg/MFArutgers/posts/
Windows of Understanding
The vision for this public art project is to transform our “main street” spaces into literal windows of understanding; spaces in which the community can learn about the positive strides being made by local organizations around a wide array of social justice issues that don’t make daily headlines. Windows of Understanding is a creative, community-building response to the negativity and hate being perpetuated in today’s media landscape.
This annual social justice and community arts initiative co-founded by Art & Design staff member Cassandra Oliveras-Moreno, will this year host an exhibition focused exclusively on the theme of Racial Justice. Unlike in years past where public art works and programming took place in New Brunswick and Highland Park, this year adds community partners and artists from Metuchen County, and will take place virtually.
A call for art submissions will go out this fall! The Project Launches MLK Weekend!
https://www.windowsofunderstanding.org/
https://www.instagram.com/windowsofunderstanding/
Windows of Understanding- New Jersey Social Justice Organization Roster
https://www.windowsofunderstanding.org/featured-organizations
Learn about the dozens of justice and equity focused non-profit and cultural organizations throughout New Brunswick, Highland Park, and Greater New Jersey. The organizations in this link have all been stakeholders in current and/or previous collaborations with Windows of Understanding.
Racial Justice Organizations:
Black Lives Matter
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
We are expansive. We are a collective of liberators who believe in an inclusive and spacious movement. We also believe that in order to win and bring as many people with us along the way, we must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all too prevalent in Black communities. We must ensure we are building a movement that brings all of us to the front.
We affirm the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, undocumented folks, folks with records, women, and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. Our network centers those who have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.
We are working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise.
We affirm our humanity, our contributions to this society, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.
The call for Black lives to matter is a rallying cry for ALL Black lives striving for liberation.
M4BL / The Movement For Black Lives
The Movement for Black Lives is an ecosystem of individuals and organizations creating a shared vision and policy agenda to win rights, recognition, and resources for Black people. In doing so, the movement makes it possible for us, and therefore everyone, to live healthy and fruitful lives.
Our movement is driven by leadership anchored to six tables: Policy Demands, Organizing & Base Building, Electoral Justice Project, The Rising Majority, and Culture & Resource.
Our movement’s structure is decentralized yet cohesive. Each table is part of this multifunctional, highly adaptive hub, and is responsible for a different strategy and programming that feeds into our larger long-term visions.
Education | Pedagogy | Learning/un-Learning:
NEW Signature Course at Rutgers: American Topics: Black Lives Matter
Mason Gross Students: This class will be applicable to either the Social Science and History or Liberal Arts Electives categories.
Core: CCD, tentatively certified (to be formalized by the SAS faculty December 2020)
Rutgers Schedule of Classes information to register for Black Lives Matter
Professors Erica Dunbar and Donna Murch, History
Meets T-Th 2:50-4:10 pm:
Black Lives Matter is a live, synchronous online course featuring lectures and facilitated discussion group
In the summer of 2020 centuries of frustration and rage spilled into the streets of large cities and small towns across America and the globe. What was known as a movement to protest police killings in the United States has become a global reckoning with racism, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. In this course we will explore the development of the #BlackLivesMatter movement beginning with the colonial era and ending with the contemporary moment. We will be inviting an array of prominent scholars and activists as guest speakers who will speak directly to the theme of Black Lives Matter through different historical moments and geographies.
Topics explored will include enslavement, racial violence, forced labor and extraction, criminalization of Black, Brown and Indigenous others, the take off of mass incarceration in the 1970s, and the war(s) on drugs and gangs. This class will focus not only on top down repression, but also on the manifold forms of black resistance and collective mobilization throughout US history from slave rebellion and self-emancipation to Black Power, Black Feminism and the "the herstory" of the Movement for Black Lives.
This course is recommended for students who intend to pursue all majors. Students intending majors in Africana studies; American studies; anthropology, comparative literature; criminal justice; economics; English; history; Latino and Caribbean studies; political science; sociology; and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies will find this course critical to study in their discipline. This course carries credit toward the major and minor in history. American Topics: Black Lives Matter at Rutgers has been tentatively certified to meet the SAS Core Curriculum goals in Contemporary Challenges: Diversities and Social Inequalities (CCD). This will be formalized by the faculty in December 2020 and will be reflected in your DN record.
Students may also want to consider the many compelling courses exploring the Black experience offered through the Department of Africana Studies. Click here to see those descriptions. For additional courses addressing race offered this semester, please do a keyword search in the Schedule of Classes using keywords such as “race,” “black,” “African,” and “Afro.”
Photo credit: Ieshia Evans, 28, a mother and licensed practical nurse from New York, was attending the Baton Rouge protest, in Louisiana, over the fatal shooting of a black man by police, when she was arrested. Photographer Jonathan Bachman was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize for capturing this now iconic image.
More information about this course can be found in a recent Rutgers Article HERE
DECOLONIZING DESIGN READER - Ramon Tejada
“INTRODUCTION: This reader is an attempt to gather materials to begin the process of puncturing and making design narratives inclusive. It is about reading, engaging and learning with others and from others….”
“As a designer, I have come to terms with the fact that what and who design history has been interested in canonizing, up to this point, does not reflect me, my cultures, my values, and many of the tenets that make me a citizen, a designer, and a teacher. I don’t see myself reflected in much of the narrative of design—not in the history, the theory, the practitioners or the outcomes…” —Ramon Tejada, “WE MUST TOPPLE THE TROPES, CRIPPLE THE CANON,” WALKER ART CENTER SOUNDBOARD READER, JULY 2018.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbymt6a3zz044xF_LCqGfTmXJip3cetj5sHlxZEjtJ4/edit?usp=sharing
Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Mulcultural Organization
https://www.aesa.us/conferences/2013_ac_presentations/Continuum_AntiRacist.pdf
Scholars for Social Justice (SSJ)
Scholars for Social Justice (SSJ) is a new formation of progressive scholars committed to promoting and fighting for a political agenda that insists on justice for all, especially those most vulnerable. This organization will mobilize the knowledge, skills and resources of scholars to battle the repressive attacks on marginalized communities, advancing instead an agenda of equality and justice. Issues impacting immigrants, women of color, people of color, LGBT, Muslims, women, differently-abled, indigenous and poor and working-class communities will be our priority. Moreover, SSJ will be especially attuned to using the experiences of these same communities to reimagine the academy, expanding who it serves, who has access to it and who shapes its mission. While all are welcome to join SSJ, the leadership will be composed primarily of those whose lives & communities sit at the intersection of the most recent attacks from the right.
SSJ stands in solidarity with other movements that have taken to the streets to win liberation for their communities. From the Movement for Black Lives to the Sanctuary and Immigrants Rights Movement to the Fight for Fifteen, oppressed people have launched national and international campaigns to protect their rights, demand their dignity and win liberation for all. And while the repressive political environment we currently face dictates that we focus our work on the most immediate struggles in the United States, we will work to make visible the fact that across the globe other marginalized peoples are engaged in similar fights for freedom, dignity and justice. Thus, Scholars for Social Justice will be in dialogue and work in active collaboration with progressive scholars in countries from South Africa to Brazil to Palestine.
http://scholarsforsocialjustice.com/about-us/
ARCHIVE: Fantasy World Master List of Resources on How to Dismantle Systemic Racism
This public archive of aggregated anti-racism resources contains the following thematic tabs: DAILY UPDATES | LEGAL FUNDS | BAIL FUNDS AND SUPPORT | GEORGE FLOYD RESOURCE COMPILATION | ANTI-RACISM PODCASTS | MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES FOR BLACK PEOPLE | MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES BY @NATALIAMANTINI | TRANS RESOURCES | ADDRESSING RACISM IN THE WORKPLACE | RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS | BLACK BUSINESSES TO SUPPORT | PRO-ACTIVE BRANDS AND PUBLICATIONS | WHITE 2 WHITE CONVERSATION TOPICS | ORGANIZATIONS TO DIRECTLY SUPPORT | BLACK LGBTQA DIRECT SUPPORT | RESOURCES FOR SURVIVORS/VICTIMS OF ABUSE | LITERATURE ON BLACK HISTORY | BLACK REVOLUTIONARY LIT | LITERATURE ON PRIVILEGE | LIT RE. POLICING & SURVEILLANCE | LITERATURE ON FREEDOM | INTRO TO RADICAL POLITICS | LITERATURE ON LATERAL VIOLENCE | RESISTANCE RESOURCE INFO HUB | 101 WAYS TO AID THOSE PROTESTING AND FIGHT ANTI-BLACKNESS | BLACK ARTISTS TO SUPPORT | MUSIC TO HEAL TO | ABORIGINAL\TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PPL CHAPTER | CANADIAN ANTI-RACIST GROUPS & BLACK ORGS |
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16CFLrMySyQR8cLTmACUKtHfc-UQ9PUA0ktLAfApydS8/edit?usp=sharing
The Room of Silence
“The Room of Silence,” 2016, (19:53) dir. Eloise Sherrid, in collaboration with co-producers Olivia Stephens, Utē Petit, and Chantal Feitosa, and the organizing efforts of the student group Black Artists and Designers.
“The Room of Silence,” is a short documentary about race, identity and marginalization at the Rhode Island School of Design. Based on interviews conducted by myself and the campus organization Black Artists and Designers, this film contains well under a third of the stories we collected in March 2016, and an unknown fraction of the stories belonging to students we didn’t have a chance to meet with.
This video is meant to serve as a discussion tool and testimony on behalf of the growing student activist movement on our campus, and around the country. The video has been shown at faculty and departmental meetings, and its release online marks the next step in exposing these issues and fostering dialogue between students and school.
There are a lot of issues present in the extremely intersectional problem this video is attempting to tackle: issues that cannot and should not be simplified down and crammed into twenty minutes. Please consider this the first entry in a necessary conversation.
Update 6/26/20:
My senior year at RISD, I collaborated with the student group Black Artists and Designers (B.A.A.D.) to document the difficulties faced by students of color at predominantly white art schools. We released “The Room of Silence” to the community on social media. It spread across campus in a matter of minutes, raising support for a rally scheduled two days later ("Not Your Token”), and attracting the attention of local newspapers. It
began a dialogue about race where previously there had only been frustrating silence. However, reports from students and faculty currently at RISD indicate that the school has taken no concrete steps to act on student demands.
While I am responsible for shooting, cutting and hosting “The Room of Silence,” this project was fundamentally a collaboration. None of this would have been possible without the efforts of Olivia Stephens, Utē Petit, Chantal Feitosa, and the student organizers at B.A.A.D. You can listen to Chantal and I discuss the origins and impact of the project in this episode of Bad at Sports, which was recorded live at Hauser & Wirth in Chelsea, NYC, on January 18, 2019.
Online, the film spread virally, and has been screened and included in curricula at art institutes for higher learning nationally and internationally, including University of the Arts London, MassArt, SAIC, and MICA. It has shown as part of national conferences on art and pedagogy, most recently the AICAD Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Convening in November 2018, where the film was seen by faculty and students from over 30 schools.
Screening and reproduction of this film is free of charge. However, if you were moved by the piece or found it helpful, please consider compensating the organizers of “Not Your Token,” without whom this project would not exist:
Olivia Stephens, Venmo: @Olivia-Stephens-1
Utē Petit, Venmo: @BabeTone
Chantal Feitosa, Venmo: @cfeitosa
If attributing the work, please acknowledge the efforts of both B.A.A.D. and the organizers, in addition to myself. For example:
“The Room of Silence,” 2016, dir. Eloise Sherrid, in collaboration with co-producers Olivia Stephens, Utē Petit, and Chantal Feitosa, and the organizing efforts of the student group Black Artists and Designers.”
Anti-Racist Resrouces for Faculty
Rutgers Division of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement has put together a phenomenal regularly updated archive called: “Becoming Anti-Racist Resource List - Understand How Race Shapes Experiences in Higher Education.” (Please bookmark!) The Division is recommending that all Rutgers faculty and instructors dedicate at least three hours exploring these articles and videos.
Rutgers Anti-Racist Library Book Resource
Anti-Racist Library Book Resource - “Books are an important tool in the life-long journey towards becoming anti-racist. Educating ourselves is critical to understanding the pervasive and systemic racism in our society. The books showcased [in the link] are a sampling of the research that has been devoted to the many interdisciplinary and intersectional issues on race in America. All the books included in this guide are available online through Rutgers Libraries.” These books can be read in an e-rader, or downloaded as full PDF’s.
Becoming Anti-Racist Reading and Discussion Club
For those who are interested in joining a Rutgers “becoming anti-racist reading and discussion book club”, you can register here.
Anti-Racism Resources for White People
“This [archive/] document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.” The document contains the following sections of content: RESOURCES FOR WHITE PARENTS TO RAISE ANTI-RACIST CHILDREN | ARTICLES TO READ | VIDEOS TO WATCH | PODCASTS TO SUBSCRIBE TO | BOOKS TO READ | FILMS AND TV SERIES TO WATCH | ORGANIZATIONS TO FOLLOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA | MORE ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES TO CHECK OUT | Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.
Here is a shorter link: bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES
On Whiteness: A Symposium at the Kitchen
The Kitchen in collaboration with The Racial Imaginary Institute presents a day-long interactive symposium on the phenomenology, distortions and diagnostics of white dominated space, featuring keynote addresses, panel discussions, and a musical performance. The proceedings will include speeches by The Future of Whiteness author Linda Alcoff, historian and artist Nell Painter, and legal scholar and The Alchemy of Race and Rights author Patricia Williams. Chris Chen will moderate a morning panel on cultural representation and appropriation with Jeff Chang, Aruna D'Souza, Daniel Borzutsky, Sarah Lewis, and Doreen St. Felix. In the afternoon, Rizvana Bradley will moderate a panel focusing on the empathy and likeability in the context of white dominance with Lauren Berlant, Sadhana Bery, Jane Caflisch, Lori Gruen, and Saidiya Hartman. Vijay Iyer will also perform as the conclusion of his residency The What of the World, which will be followed by a discussion with Claudia Rankine and Patricia Williams.
https://thekitchen.org/event/on-whiteness-a-symposium
Anti-Racist Packet: Compiled by Jasmine Mitchell
An incredible resource of documents, other organizations, texts, data, visualizations engaging Ant-Racist practice and knowledge. It includes an array of activist and justice organizations, petitions, and initiatives for donating to and working with.
@smooth_jas on Instagram / @smooth_jasmine on Twitter / Jasmine Mitchell on Facebook / @smoothjasmine on Venmo / $smoothjasmine on Cash App / jasmitche@gmail.com on PayPal
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16tuiRYmXO7-O4A52A0oUBy3l5TBgbLifJ7TZIhEJHqY/edit?usp=sharing
21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge
“Have you ever made a successful change in your life? Perhaps you wanted to exercise more, eat less, or change jobs? Think about the time and attention you dedicated to the process. A lot, right? Change is hard. Creating effective social justice habits, particularly those dealing with issues of power, privilege, supremacy and leadership is like any lifestyle change. Setting our intentions and adjusting what we spend our time doing is essential. It’s all about building new habits. Sometimes the hardest part is just getting started. The good news is, there’s an abundance of resources just waiting to empower you to be a more effective player in the quest for equity and justice. Please use this plan just as it is, or adapt it to a sector, an ethnic/racial group, or interest area.”
https://www.eddiemoorejr.com/21daychallenge
Linkedin Learning Starting Points
These series of on-line trainings from Linked in offer modules in Unconscious Bias, Confronting Bias, Skill for Inclusive Conversations, Communicating about Culturally sensitive issues and many others. Some module sections are free, but many you will be required to sign up for.
https://diversity.rutgers.edu/linkedin_learning_startingpoint
Anti-Racism & Disability Justice:
Honoring Arnaldo Rios-Soto & Charles Kinsey: Achieving Liberation Through Disability Solidarity
https://www.talilalewis.com/blog/achieving-liberation-through-disability-solidarity
Harriet Tubman Collective:
“Resources looking at the collaboration of racism and ableism and the ways that policing and incarceration disproportionally kill black and brown disabled people and/or further disable black and brown people. Harriet Tubman collective has long organized to center D/deaf and disabled black and brown people and resistance within BLM spaces--not only for statistical awareness and legal or structural action but also to acknowledge ways and means of survival that black disabled people make possible.”
Harriet Tubman Collective: https://harriettubmancollective.tumblr.com/
Language/Structural: Why I don’t use “anit-Black ableism” (& language longings)
“TL Lewis, founder of HEARD (advocacy organization for incarcerated D/deaf people) most recent post on the redundancy of anti-black ableism since ableism is inherently anti-black:”
https://www.talilalewis.com/blog
Policy | Mother/Activist, Kerima Çevik, Tells Why Police Crisis/Disability Training Is Not The Answer
An article discussing why crisis training for police is not enough, we need to dismantle the police: https://poormagazine.org/node/5510
Further discussion | Webinar: Grounding Movements In Disability Justice
A roundtable happened earlier this summer titled "Grounding Movements in Disability Justice": https://www.dustinpgibson.com/offerings/groundingmovementsindj
Art & Design + Rutgers General Student Resources:
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION in Art & Design:
Meet with an Art & Design Diversity & Inclusion Committee staff/faculty member:
Community Office Hours - every Wednesday from 12-1pm (CSB Rm. 318) A member of the Diversity Committee will be available to privately discuss any ideas, feedback, questions, complaints, or concerns from students, faculty, and staff.
Communicate with the Art & Design Diversity & Inclusion Committee:
Anonymous email: You can also send the committee an anonymous email by filling out the on-line form that can be accessed from the art.rutgers.edu landing page on CSB computers.
Comment Box: Those who prefer to share their ideas or concerns anonymously may drop feedback into the Diversity & Inclusion comment box located in the vestibule of the Art & Design office.
Learn More: A Strategic Vision for Art & Design - Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism
From admissions efforts, curricular changes and diversity in the faculty, to new initiatives and programming, learn about the on-going structural changes that have been taking place within Art & Design and its vision for the future. To learn more, please contact Cassandra Oliveras-Moreno: coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu
Get Involved!
Art & Design: Want to get involved with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-racism efforts in the Department, Please reach out to Cassandra Oliveras-Moreno: coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu to learn how you can be a student representative in the Department DEIC Committee.
Transmissions
Transmissions aims to open up a safe space for trans folk and their allies. Transmissions allows trans people and allies to join together in an informative and discussion-based group, creating a sense of community and a field of resources.
Meetings are in the College Ave Student Center, Room 411A, 8PM - 9PM
socialjustice.rutgers.edu/trans-ru/
Trans @ RU
Bias on Campus:
A Bias Act is defined by the University as an act, verbal, written, physical, psychological, that threatens, or harms a person or group on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, atypical heredity or cellular blood trait, military service or veteran status.
Report a bias incident:
If you experience or witness an act of bias or hate, report it to someone in authority. You may file a report online and you will be contacted within 24 hours.
http://inclusion.rutgers.edu/report-bias-incident/
Sexual Misconduct Confidential Resource for Students:
This includes support for Sexual Harassment, Gender-based Harassment, Sexual Intimidation, Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Assault and Non-Consensual Sexual Contact, Relationship Violence, Dating Violence, Stalking, and Retaliation.
Contact The Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance to speak with a confidential advocate. Advocates are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 848-932-1181.
Services include counseling and advocates to accompany students to appointments.
Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at Rutgers University: http://inclusion.rutgers.edu/
Mason Gross Dean of Students: Mandy Feiler
Will advocate for all students and help them navigate the support services here on campus. She can help you if you are having difficulty contacting CAPS, financial issues, and academic concerns. You may drop in without an appointment to her office in the CSB Dean’s office every Tuesday from 1:30-3:30 or on Douglass in Mortensen Hall on Mondays from 1:30-3:30. You can also call to make an appointment by emailing advisement@mgsa.rutgers.edu or calling 848-932-9360
GET INVOLVED: FUTURE SCHOLARS PROGRAM
At Rutgers Future Scholars, we believe that access to higher education not only changes the lives of our students, but also has the power to change entire communities.
Each year, the Rutgers Future Scholars program offers 200 first-generation, low-income, academically promising middle school students from New Brunswick, Piscataway, Newark, Camden and Rahway the opportunity for a college education. Click on a town to learn more about each program.
In the summer before their 8th grade year, students become part of a unique pre-college culture of university programming, events, support, and mentoring that will continue through their high school years, and eventually college.
The Rutgers Future Scholars program does not replace high school. The program is additional to your standard high school classes, intended to prepare students for college by providing them with honors classes, cultural events, career skills, sports, and more. Future Scholars are expected to complete their regular schoolwork as well as the additional requirements of the Rutgers Future Scholars program.
Students who successfully complete the five-year program will receive full tuition funding (through scholarships and federal grants) to Rutgers University.
In short, Rutgers Future Scholars offers hope, opportunity, and tuition scholarship.
https://futurescholars.rutgers.edu/app/content/home.jsp
MENTAL HEALTH: COUNSELING & SUPPORT
For Emergencies: Call 911
Non-Emergencies: Call RUPD 848-932-7111
(CAPS) Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program & Psychiatric Services CAPS is committed to creating a safe, comfortable, welcoming and affirming environment for students.
Meet with a Community Based Counselor in Art & Design:
Meet with Richard Carlson
Thursdays, 2–4 p.m.
CSB - Office is in Mason Gross Galleries, (2nd right and to the back)
Call: 848-932-7884 (option 2)
Are you feeling in crisis?
During regular business hours (Mon-Fri, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm)
Call CAPS at 848-932-7884 and ask to speak to the on-call counselor.
AFTER HOURS / WEEKENDS - CONTACT:
ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES (APS) 855-515-5700. (New Brunswick/Piscataway area only; available 365/24/7.)
NJ HOPELINE at 855-654-6735 (available 365/24/7.)
NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVIENTION LIFELINE (NSPL) at 800-273-TALK (8255). (available 365/24/7.)
GET SUPPORT TEXTING “KNIGHT” to 741741 – available 24/7
FamiLGBTQ+ Group is a new CAPS support group for Rutgers Students. “Have you come out to your family and it did not go well? Are you scared to come out for fear of how your family will react? Is your family struggling to accept your LGBTQ+ identity?”
For more information see a CAPS clinician or call 848-932-7884
STUDENT FINANCIAL ISSUES:
Emergency Assistance at the Division of Student Affairs, New Brunswick:
Emergency Assistance Fund Provides one-time financial assists to students experiencing unusual and non-chronic financial hardships (i.e. house fires, burglaries, medical emergencies, etc.) who have exhausted all other resources.
LGBTQ Student Emergency Fund Provides supplemental educational emergency assistance to LGBT identified students who are facing financial hardship, often as the result of family separation or challenge due to their social identity.
Food Security Fund Provides immediate relief to students deemed to have inconsistent access to adequate food. Support for this fund helps ensure that no student goes hungry at Rutgers.
For more information on how to receive Emergency Assistance, contact the Dean of Students at (848) 932-2300, or Mandy Feiler Dean of Students at Mason Gross (848) 932-5208, or contact your Department Chair.
Rutgers Student Food Pantry:
39 Union Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Hours of Operation: M-F 9AM - 4PM
Call: 848-932-5500
MORE INFORMATION: http://ruoffcampus.rutgers.edu/food/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/RUFoodPantry/
Other Pantries in the New Brunswick Area:
Elijah’s Promise: (732) 545-9002
Ebenezer Baptist Church Food Pantry : (732) 247-2459
Five Loaves Food Pantry: (732) 545-0581
Christ Episcopal Church: (732) 545-6262
ACADEMIC SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS:
Student Resources for Time Management and Organization:
https://rlc.rutgers.edu/node/95
Student Academic Success Workshops:
https://rlc.rutgers.edu/faculty-and-staff-services/class-support/class-workshops
